I personally think that learning 2 langs at the same time can help me enjoy more language learning. Some few months ago I was like "iM gONna LeaRn sPAniSh" And as I progress I notice that I was getting bored of the process but then I invited a new language, Japanese and it gave my learning experience more fun

i m learning Japanese, Spanish, French, Italian and Korea at the same time. at the end of this year, I will come back to give my update. see you then, if you are interested

If the languages are very different and you're at different stages then it's a lot more manageable to learn multiple languages.

Your positivity in the first 10 seconds of the video is the energy I wanna have in 2021 HAHAHAHA

I just found and your channel and I am obsessed🥺 your TALENT and energy are so inspiring

Her saying she talks rlly fast at the end, & me watching it on 2X speed and understanding everything= big brain.

Learning a language is not hard. It just takes time. You must be willing and never give up. Most important of all you must be patient. Good luck y'all :3!

Elysse: YES YOU CAN! me: *leaning back* okay, okaaay, now I believe that!

I want to learn both Korean and French at the same time, but it's hard because of school I barely have time to do anything aside from house chores, but I this year I'm gonna do my best to study both

I loved how you stopped just to explain what backburner means, girl that's the kind of language awareness we wantttttt haha also forgetting a word of your own language because it's all a little mixed up, so relatable

Hi! I’m currently learning 5 languages at the same time (literally): French, Italian, Romanian, Catalan, and Portuguese. I already am a native speaker of Spanish so it’s very easy for me to understand most of these. For me the easiest ones are Portuguese because it’s just Spanish but slightly different, and Romanian since it’s the one with the most difference between all 6. I don’t get any word confused somehow, but some are slightly harder than the others. I wish well on your journey! Bonne journée/Bonne nuit, ami!

2:05 I totally agree with you. I commented on your last video about me learning German and Spanish simultaneously from zero in 2018 and how it didn't work out for me so I dropped Spanish. After spending 2 years in learning German alone, I recently started learning French. Learning the two languages is now much much easier after progressing with the earlier language (German). Vielen Dank für das tolle Video.

Ive studied Spanish and Portuguese at the same time. Its hard at first, but eventually you learn to separate them. I think in the long run its better off done that way because now I can completely separate them UNLESS I hear the other spoken. Like if I am listening to Spanish music, I am going to end up speaking Portuñol if I try to speak Portuguese and vice versa.

I could not seriously learn two languages from the same family at the same time. I remember when I first started studying French and Arabic at the same time a couple years ago, people thought I was crazy! In reality the two are so different that it was actually fairly easy to switch my brain from studying one to the other. Even now, my top languages are French, Arabic, and Indonesian--all very different! Though I'm dabbling in Spanish and Italian as well, I'm being careful not to focus too much on them so I don't get confused, haha!

You're so inspiring! I come back to your channel whenever I feel burnt out and demotivated to continue learning. Happy new year! 💗

NO WAY Elysse I literally cut out the newborn baby analogy with languages out of a video the other day, I view it the exact same way haha I definitely have found for me the "don't learn 2 languages from the same family at once" advice doesn't apply so much, I found doing Spanish and Italian at once really helpful for both, but I can also understand how the similarities and connections that I found helped me improve both could cause others to mix them up... I really feel like (like anything in language learning) it's all a process to play around with and find what works best for each person individually as opposed to something that has a blanket answer. Same with how I like to have multiple languages per day in my life as I aim to have them as integrated into my life and a part of me as possible and when I've ignored languages for a while I find my confidence lost in those and just unhappy I've been apart from them. Overall I definitely don't think learning multiple at the same time is as scary as it's often made out to be, especially when you're in a position where some of the languages are in your life at school/work/in your relationship. A lot of it is just like in school itself, studying multiple subjects likely didn't set any of us too far back and in many cases probably assisted in the others, so why can't that apply to our learning outside of school? Then again this is all coming from someone who decided to do 2 degrees and 2 minors, so clearly I'm someone that likes to have a lot going on lol Love the video as always

Wow,,,6 languages for 2021👍, i hope i can study at least one language this year 😅

I know english pretty well, so I'm thinking about to learn french and german, but i don't know how to start. I actually don't remember how i started learning english

For 2021, I am learning two dead languages at the same time. Greek and Latin. For the two languages I decided to spend three days a week on Greek and two on Latin because I already have knowledge in Latin. As for modern languages, I am trying to become more accustomed to using subjunctive in French, the present perfect in Spanish along with eventually learning it's subjunctive, and I am also starting to learn Hindi. One thing that I have learned, in regards to learning other languages is to make sure each language you are studying is at a different level than another. As well as, separating the acquisition of each language by changing your writing style. Such as when learning French, I write in cursive. Where as in German, I nearly always write in print.

What makes learning my 4 languages at the same time (French,Italian,Spanish and French) easier,is that I have persons in my life who I speak to everyday that speaks those languages natively. I practice with them everyday, and they also provide their assistance and correct my mistakes. So just evaluate yourself and decide the best approach.

Of course you CAN learn that many languages at the same time. But you will spread your self too thin. Fluency takes so many years to achieve. Dividing your time up across different languages only makes that process wayyyy longer. I’m not trying to put down anyone who wants to learn multiple languages at the same time. But you need to be realistic. Learning just one languages is a huge feat to accomplish.

Elysse you are literally the coolest person ever I hope you know that. Your Brazilian podcast is a lifesaver and your KZfaq channel is a chef’s kiss

I'm so happy that you posted a new video bc I binge-watched your channel and now I have NOTHING left to watch

Nice video! I learned English and French at the same time and it worked perfectly, in many cases both languages helped me to understand better linguistic aspects from each of them.

I've been studying German for 3 years and I LOVE the language i literally do it for fun. I've been wanting to learn Japanese for a long time. I'm starting by just memorizing hiragana and takana to set a solid foundation

This was a really good video and a theme I actually wanted to talk briefly about. 👏🏾👏🏾🙌🏾

I actually heard that it’s pretty smart to learn multiple languages because once you get past a certain stage you’ll be able to compare and contrast them. I am “learning” 8 languages too: French, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Chinese Mandarin, Portuguese, and Arabic. I have more experience with French and Spanish since I’ve been learning them longer. Naturally, some language skills are stronger than others but I’m good with Hangul and Japanese Kana. I know with most of them I will never be fluent but it’s still fun to learn. With the Romance languages I am learning I love being able to have a general idea of what something means because I’m already fluent with French and Spanish. I see Chinese Mandarin and Arabic as more brain exercises because they are the most challenging to me. Italian and Portuguese I just kind of threw in because I was getting bored with French and Spanish so I wanted the whole set lol. I watch a ton of East Asian films and TV shows so learning Korean and Japanese was just an added bonus. Even if I am not strong in them, I know what people are talking about without subtitles so to me that’s an accomplishment. I say all that to say, people learn differently and not everyone’s language goals are the same. If you want to learn 20 languages just because you feel like it then I say go for it. Obviously if you have plans to do something like relocate to a country that speak certain languages then your priority should be spent on that.

i studying german (main) and korean (little by little, lots of immersion!) atm, and im soooooo excited to build those up to a strong enough level to move on to portuguese, thai, or polish. i dont know which one yet, but the fact that there's a whole entire world of languages out there is highkey AMAZING to me

I've already watched a few videos on this topic but I felt like I got a new perspective from this one :) also I appreciate that you don't assume everyone watching is a native speaker of English

Thank you very much, I was one of those who requested the video. I have B2, in English, and I have started studying German. I am planning to study Scandinavian languages later on, and will be studying Latin as well. Your video helped me to create the right strategy for me. Thank you very much.

the first two has been so important to me throughout my language learning journey, I've been studying french for about 1 year and a half and a couple of weeks ago I started with german, they're from different roots so I won't mix them up and also I gave enough time to be comfortable with my french level before going into a new language

This was really really helpful and such a great video in general. Wirklich vielen vielen Dank dafür!

Gonna try German and Russian from february! (I have a german exam in a couple of weeks, drücke die Daumen für mich!)

I really like how you go straight to the point in your videos and that you keep it real. A lot of people just want to show off to get views!! Great job Elyssinha!

Great video! Blocking out time may be more effective, and it might work for some people, but I can never bring myself to do day-by-day switch-ups. I'm more of a "do what I want when I feel like it" kind of learner lol, so hardcore planning doesn't usually work for me. I can do longer periods of "focus" in one language versus another. This month, for example, I'm going to try and focus on my beginner-level Japanese (with my high-level Korean in the background when I feel like doing something else) before switching over to intermediate Chinese (with Korean still in the background). But in general, I just go with the flow. :)

Congrats on being such a young polygon! I’m 33, and native to English and Spanish, but I recently got into the idea of learning Chinese Mandarin, Hindi, Arabic, and Swahili, reasoning that this would allow me to talk to over half the world and in all continents/ major regions (Swahili is #1 African language, and high estimates by Harvard and UNESCO rank it at over 200M speakers, and I hope it can one day become the official African language). Of course, Russian, French, Bengali, Portuguese, German and Urdu all have good reasons to ask to be learned, but I feel that most people from those countries should know English, Spanish, Hindi etc.

Cool idea, I was dabbling in French and started to really enjoy watching French twitch streamers where as with my German, i'm still studying using Busuu and passed my A1 test the other day! I agree using different routines/resources is the way forward! Great video!

I'm learning Spanish and Russian at the same time. Just getting started and I love it! It's not hard to me. My brother is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and French. My sister is learning Tibetan. Mon Feb 7 2022

That first explanation makes so much sense about the different families! In HS I took german and spanish at the same time and mixed words up on occaision and overall it made it difficult. But lately I've been learning Russian and started back up on German, and I don't get them mixed up anywhere near as often except sometimes I might say da instead of ja but that's no big deal to me. The other tips in this video are also really good and make me a lot more confident about steamrolling my way to being polylingual.

I’m learning Spanish and Portuguese together 😳

Hey Nice Channel! I speak Portuguese, English and Spanish and last week I started to study French and Italian. I hope to take some tips here with you! Success!!

Especially if they come from the same branch or family. I'm intermediate in Spanish, but am learning Italian, French, and Romanian all at once. It's not as hard as I thought it would be.

Been very helpful! Noted and all. Thanks!!!

Oii Elysse, feliz ano novo!!! Good luck!

That baby analogy you used for learning new languages was perfect. I wish you the best of luck this year on your holy quest. I look forward to seeing everything you do in 2021; I've got season tickets to the whole thing haha. Inspiring as always.

ngl It helps me learn better when I do more than one language

This was super helpful thank you!!

Hey! Thanks so much for your tips I thought they were really helpful and they pretty much summarize my own experience with learning multiple languages at the same time! What I do differently is that I do all languages (it's just 2/3 at the moment) everyday but at the different times, i.e. I do spanish in the mornings and mandarin in the evening, so I'm always in a different state of mind when I learn them. But might give blocking certain days a try - I thought of doing one language only on weekends (i might want to level up my french again)

I agree with your perspective here! I want to make a whole video about studying with anxiety because... for me, learning multiple things at once is crucial to being able to effectively learn. Up until recently, I only studied one language but I was always working on or studying other things outside of that (instruments, academic fields, cooking, etc.) I think when I am only focusing on one thing, it makes it easy for me to enter into a spiral of thinking I should /always/ be studying and then I feel shame when I'm not. By introducing another language into my studying, I've already started to be more effective because I realize my time studying each language is finite and I need to make the most out of it, rather than slowly chip away at every waking minute. Not sure if that makes sense, but as someone with OCD (which can present similarly to ADHD), diversifying what I'm studying and learning is super beneficial.

Cool! I've been studying English for 2 years, and I already have some progress, I can able to understand videos like you, and I started to learn 2 mount ago japanese, and I agree with you, if you will study language in 0, it will gets much harder to study.

I find your video really helpful thank you for sharing it.♡

Thanks for giving me the motivation I need👍

I liked your analogy about new languages being like babies, requiring more time and attention than languages you already have a higher level. It matches my experience with english (that I've been studying for a long time and already have a quite comfortable level, though I'm still not fluent) and italian (which I started to study in 2020 and I'm still at a basic level). My italian requires way more time and attention. I think I'll wait a little till I get a more intermediate level at italian, and then I'll start to learn another language.

Hi Elysse! Happy New Year!

Thanks ❤️❤️I study Spanish, German and English for school and I was considering to start learn French. I just started using the method of switching weekly and I consider it the best!

This video was so good, thank you so much for everything. I can't realize how did the time pass😄

I recently discovered your channel and I love itttt, love from Italy ✨💗

I want a good online class to learn different language's like Spanish, French etc. Am willing to pay any amount for it.

This video is so helpful for me! In 2024 I’m hoping to continue to grow in ASL and Tagalog but I want to self study Spanish and study Chinese at university come fall 2024. To hear about the helpfulness of having “academics languages and lots of separateness is really encouraging!

Fresh insight: using a different format for every language practicing😊

Am studying German and Italian at the same time because I read that studying a very different second language, helps the first language. Also want to holiday in Italy. My German is a lot more advanced than my Italian. Can do both languages in the same session.

I’m studying Romanian, Italian, and Portuguese. Luckily my mind decided to let me tell the difference, it turns out a lot of people get them mixed up. For me, it’s easy to find the differences and not get mixed up. I guess I got lucky :p

this is great! I was getting frustrated because I wanted to learn German and ucranian but felt like if I was going to learn a language it should be spanish (I live in NW America ) so it's really great to hear that that kind of studying works from someone who actually uses it. I work really well switching back and forth, doing a little bit of this, then that, but I thought that would be too much if I was learning whole languages

Those are some great tips! I’m learning Spanish and Japanese. I’m almost an A1 level in Spanish and am a complete beginner in Japanese. I’ll try swapping each language around each day and using different learning methods. Thanks again

I'm struggling to even get started learning one! Ever have that moment where you keep banging your head against a brick wall and nothing that you seem to be doing is working? That's me and the Cyrillic alphabet!

I think that focusing on one language is the best option, but I have a strong incentive to study more xd. I'm gonna study 5 languages this year (including my native one xd). And I'm gonna dabble in Korean (I'll begin studying it maybe a few years from now). But yeah, if you don't need to learn more than one language, don't.

This was a really good video and a theme I actually wanted to talk briefly about.

you inspire me so much! 💙

I’m currently learning French and Brazilian Portuguese at the same time •.•

I'm learning both Spanish and Polish. I'm putting more effort into Spanish though, one day studying Polish and two next days Spanish.

Swedish language is a mandatory at school here in Finland but I was super bad at it back then, now I'm trying to get back to it again. Kinda also wanting to study german and russian too since russian is so used in eastern Finland and german seems to be very appreciated at my career. What is getting in the way is my very short-lived interests because of ADHD so that's something I gotta fight with. I'll keep watching your videos, they seem helpful.

thank you Elysse!

Yes, i always get confused when I wanna count in Norwegian and then I count in Icelandic hahaha

Hi, Can you actually recommend sources to learn Spanish? I would appreciate it.

her voice is so pleasing to listen to 😩 i’m only studying japanese this year but it’s already so difficult whew

This came at just the right time- I had a breakdown yesterday cuz I couldn’t organize/find the time to learn three and maintain two all at once

oh god learning german at home 🙇🏼‍♀️ i’m german and so happy that i don’t have to learn it, it’s so confusing

I am also going to be studying 5 or 6 languages this year ❤️❤️

I have three languages to learn, French Korean and Spanish, since I have millions of reasons to, hope you wish me luck on doing once a month which works for me! Binge studying one language a month is with a go for me ;)

Omg, you are incredibly incredible ❤️

“I talk very fast” I was watching the video on 1.5x speed lmao

“I talk too fast” girl I watch videos in 2x and I felt fine watching yours lol

This makes me feel better that I'm trying to tackle 3 at the same time, Spanish is one I wanted to learn because of the vast majority of people where I live speak Spanish I've always wanted to learn Japanese I love the language so much, and I want to learn my mother language French, I also seriously want to learn ASL

Good to know, Ellysse. I, on the other hand, chose to study two languages that are rather similar to each other, which are Mandarin and Tibbetan(they’re both tonal.) So I’ll work on Tibetan for six months and Mandarin for another six.

I'm learning deutsch, girl How did you get the "nominativ, Akusativ, dativ" and all those things

I can talk Arabic now 😭😭after 2 years

Thanks for the motivation ❤️

I'm studying 6 languaged at the same time: french, russian, hindi, spanish, greek and arabic. Right now I'm studying deeper french and russian (grammar and vocabulary books, podcasts, Duolingo, music and movies), and the others I'm just learning the basics, getting a good base knowledge (same as above, but without using books or academic materials). All of them are brand new languages for me, except spanish, which I have already completed levels A1 and A2. Spanish also shares a lot of similareties with my mother language, portuguese (I'm from Brazil) which make things way easier. For me at least, so far, so good! And the best thing about learning new languages are all the cultural knowledge that comes with it! I've been reading, listening and watching things about France, Russia, India, Spain, Greece and all the Arab countries, and it's so amazing and enriching!

Então você estuda Português? Te recomendo ouvir bossa nova, sertanejo universitário 😘🇧🇷

Explication :) It does make sense tho

Right now I am studying Thai and have been for a little over 5 months (since mid July). But in August when I had a choice to choose an elective class for university, I chose Mandarin because it interested me and my college does not offer a Thai course :( In my experience, I quickly realized that I would put all my effort into studying Thai through all sorts of mediums, and then when it came time to study Chinese I would not only have no energy but would also just not care to learn the language. I became a bad student and didn't really study the language, but rather just did what I needed to do to get an A in the course. Meanwhile, my Thai excelled and I still feel that I am growing exponentially each day. I relate to your point that you should not study two new languages at the same time, as for even right now the amount of attention that I give to studying Thai is too massive for me to feel comfortable adding another language. Tbh, I also think that I just never was passionate about learning Chinese either. But that is my only experience in trying to learn two languages at the same time, and for me it didn't work well LOL.

I really want to learn Spanish and Italian!!! Great video💕😊

0:09 I wouldn’t know, I’m colorblind

Even though i am fluent in both french and english in addition of my mother tongue which is arabic ... I started losing and forgetting words in these languages when i started learning german .. Let alone learning multiple languages at once .. I could never

I actually really like studying languages of the same family simultaneously! I know that most people don't, but I don't get them confused, so for me I find it really fun. But I think that you need to test it first before making a huge commitment. 😊

That's the perfect video for me right now because I'm learning spanish and started to learn mandarin chinese too :)

Elysse, do you study all of your languages with a base of English or have you done laddering? I think on Twitter you mentioned trying it but I wasn't sure if you've done it yet!

If not one at a time, different language families and _especially_ different levels of comfort with each language are very good ideas. Otherwise, as you have said in the past, the languages "compete" with each other for your attention.

Actual good advice

Great job!